IT staff member Randy Thornton was invited to be the opening speaker at Lewis and Clark College’s annual Faculty Technology Institute on May 19th.

The topic was “Start Teaching with Web 2.0 Tools” and was an introduction for faculty who are interested in starting to add Web 2.0 tools such as tagging, blogging, wikis and social network to their teaching repertoire. Several UPS faculty sites were used as examples, including some on the Showcase.

The slides of the presentation are available here on Google Docs.

Here are the extended Tech Center hours in Collins Memorial Library 018 for Reading Period and Finals week:

Reading Period

Weekend

Finals Week

Extended Library hours schedule is here.

The Director of Instructional Technology position has been vacant since Michael Nanfito left in July, 2006. Today the search has been renewed with the public posting of the description for this position.

• Higher Education Jobs listing
• UPS HR Web Site Listing

The Instructional Technology group is proud to acknowledge our part in both of the front page stories in today’s edition of The Trail.

The Trail’s Best of Special Edition has awarded Best Event of the year to the visit of Senator Hillary Clinton, who spoke at the UPS Field House on February 8th. IT Staff member Walter Andrews was an instrumental part of the negotiations to bring Senator Clinton to campus and coordinated the audio-visual media needs for the event. Bravo, Walter!

We are also proud of our connection with the Trail’s other front page Best of the 2007-2008 academic year: Best Place to Have Sex on Campus. Though the number one item was the baseball dugout, the Media Carrels in the Library followed up.

The Media Services arm of Instructional Technology purchase and maintain the media equipment in these carrels and we are gratified to know students have found multiple uses for them. If there is anything we can do to make this equipment more conducive for widespread use, please send us some Feedback.